This one concerns the treatment of the Chiricauhuas by Captain Glanton and his American scalp-hunters low beneath the border toward Tucson...

Cormac McCarthy wrote:Lashed on behind the cage rode the whiskey keg they'd drained the night before. The keg had been dismantled and rebound by a man Glanton had appointed cooper pro-tem to the expedition and it now contained within it a flask made from a common sheep's stomach and holding perhaps three quarts of whiskey. This flask was fitted to the bung at the inside and the rest of the keg was filled with water.